Mission 3 - Operation: Lion's Den

This is a tough mission. Right from the beginning, tangos will come after you and your teams. All the tangos wear body armor, so take along weapons that will penetrate.

You begin on the ground floor of Parliament. You'll need two teams for this mission. While one secures the ground floor, the other heads up the clock tower to rescue the hostages. Heartbeat sensors already have been placed around the building, so your teams needn't carry them. You'll find most tangos waiting around corners. A great tactic for getting through this mission is to bounce a frag grenade off an opposite wall back toward the target.

Blue Team

Blue is the hostage rescue team. From the start, have them run down into the tunnel under Parliament and hold halfway through it.

At code Alpha, continue down the tunnel. The ground floor should be clear by now. One or two tangos wait on the southern stairway's first landing. Take them out, and then make your way up the clock tower. At each corner, check your map to see what lies ahead. At least one tango awaits you on each flight. Frag grenades work well for taking them out without exposing yourself. Also, strafe slowly past the corner until you can just barely see the enemy. Switch to Sniper view and inch out just a bit more so you can shoot them quickly in the body or head.

After several flights, you will come to a large room with gears. To the right of the door are two or three tangos. Bounce a frag grenade off the gears and you can take them all out with a single blast. Clear out this room and then head up the next flight of stairs, which lead to the last room. Set your team's ROE to Clear. Carefully make your way into the room. There are several terrorists in this room and two on the walkway above, with the hostages. Move counterclockwise along the wall as you take out the tangos on your level. Try to pick off the tangos overhead, as well.

You must clear this area quickly, before the tangos can kill the hostages. When the area is secure, escort the dignitaries down the clock tower to the extraction zone.

Red Team

It's Red Team's job to secure the ground floor. At the start of the mission, expect at least one tango to come and check out the insertion zone. Drop him, and then head into the House of Commons (to the east) and take out any tangos there. Next, head up the eastern stairway. Watch out for tangos that may be coming down. At the top of the stairs, follow the walkway to the House of Lords.

Along the way, you'll pass two openings that look down on two rooms. From there, you can shoot down at the tangos covering the extraction zone. There may be two or three. Take out as many as you can now, so there will be fewer later. Continue to the House of Lords, and make your way down the north stairway. Clear out this large room, and then finish off any survivors near the extraction zone before securing the last room to the south. Finally, hold short of the southern stairway while Blue Team rescues the hostages. At code Delta, head for the extraction zone.